Sterling's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 114, Jan. T., 1916, by Plympton, Gardiner & Company, from decree of O. C. Luzerne Co., No. 591, of 1913, dismissing exceptions to adjudication, in Estate of A. A. Sterling, Deceased. Exceptions to adjudication. Before Freas, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court dismissed the exceptions. Plympton, Gardiner & Company appealed. Error assigned, among others, was in dismissing the exceptions.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moschzisker,
At the audit of the executor’s account in the estate of A. A. Sterling, deceased, Gilbert M. Plympton and Pierpont P. Davis, trading as Plympton, Gardiner & Company, presented a claim founded on a transaction with the decedent concerning the purchase of certain railroad bonds. The court below found as follows: “In 1903, Redmond, Kerr & Company, brokers and bankers, sold to A. A. Sterling, the decedent, $25,000.00 Mexican International Railroad Company 4 per cent, bonds, at 90% and interest......Lee Gazley, the agent of Redmond, Kerr & Company, testified that…
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